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Videos for Executive Summit: Learning in the Digital Age
What’s driving the digital revolution in education? And will it be a boon for students, helping the U.S. stay competitive in a global economy, as advocates say?
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Young Science Journalists Take to the Zoo
Thirteen budding young German science writers recently grilled veteran scribes to learn more about the field during a three-day workshop “The Intelligence of Animals” run by Spektrum der Wissenchaft...
The Sciences
Learning in the Digital Age: Executive STEM Summit
Leaders from academia, public policy, and the private sector gathered to discuss the future of learning at the Scientific American and Macmillan Science and Education Executive STEM Summit: Learning in the Digital Age...
Evolution
Urban Lore Debunked in New E-Book: Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are just a sample of the urban lore investigated in our newest eBook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths...
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Teach a Course for Scientific American and N.Y.U.-Poly
Scientific American and NYU-Poly are teaming up to offer week-long online courses for a virtual professorial education program, and we're looking for great proposals.
Environment
Science in Action Winner for 2013: Elif Bilgin
[caption id="attachment_1599" align="alignright" width="201" caption="Elif Bilgin, winner of the 2013 Science in Action award, a $50,000 prize sponsored by Scientific American as part of the Google Science Fair...
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Expiring food, hanging gardens, the power of sepiolite, farmer software and plankton: Meet the Science in Action finalists, part 4
On June 27, the winner of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award , powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
The Sciences
Enhancing desalination efficiency, a new language for the deaf and blind, and electricity from tomato juice: Meet the Science in Action finalists, Part 3
On June 27, the winner of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award , powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
The Sciences
Measuring Ultraviolet radiation, improving crop yield via electric currents and creating electricity from traffic: Meet the Science in Action Finalists, Part 2
On June 27, the winner of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award , powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
The Sciences
Banana-Peel Plastic, Wastewater Fuel Cell, Body-Heat Flashlight: Meet the Science in Action Finalists, Part I
On June 27, the winner of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award , powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
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